...She could be echoing Swift's Grub Street hack's claims for "our" modern works in A Tale of a Tut:24 "From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers . . . there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the...

...productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so...fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers; ... (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Wingate edition, 1948, p. 22-23). the blame, in that they only...

...Northanger Abbey, Austen satirized anthologies, noting that while the novelist is unjustly maligned, "the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator and a chapter from Sterne" is "eulogized by a thousand pens."...

...productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so...publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand...

...Although our productions have afforded more . . . pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so...fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers. (Northanger Abbey [1966] 37) 35 The amusing passage defending novels also alludes to serious matters,...

...success. Another can be found in Jane Austen's complaint that critics take novelists less seriously than "the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne.'"2'' Like Coleridge's, More's...

...repetition, quotation, and reproduction of a male canon - in defence of the femaleidentified novel genre: And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger...publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand...

...productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so...fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers. (59) Many women novelists portray heroines who mock or abstain from novel-reading (Hervey Louisa 1:38-39,...

...pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has heen so much decried. From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers. ... while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England ... are eulogized...

...that she makes in chapter 5. By the second occurrence Austen is writing in the first-person plural: From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers . . . there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the...